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Cisco Data Center Training and

Certification Portfolio Mark Johnson

David Mallory

BRKCCIE-1001


• Challenges and opportunities for an industry in transition

• Alignment to the larger Cisco transformational message

• Partitioning of a complex subject to make it accessible

• Effectively serving a complete range of customers

• Filling the gaps, evolving into the future

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Agenda


Agenda


• Alignment to the larger Cisco strong transformational message




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Voice Transport

Telecommuting and VPN

Wireless

Web 2.0

Unified Communications

IP Video and TelePresence

Enhanced Security

Ethernet Switching

Routing

Data Center

Role and complexity of the Network Grows Ev

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ork

Time

Learning@Cisco Charter

Remove knowledge gaps as barriers to deployment

Enable Cisco, partners, and customers

Technical and business architects

Workflow Designers

Infrastructure Deployment Architects

Virtualization Infrastructure Designers

Vertical solutions

Certified skills

Virtualization – Challenges and Opportunities

Knowledge Gap

Virtualization, Cloud

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Data Center Technology Evolution Towards the Cloud

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Org

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tio

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l ch

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ge

s

Centralize

Computing,

Minimal

network

impact

Time, complexity

Client/Server

Virtualization,

whole offers

Cloud,

Intelligent

Automation

Routing, Switching

LxNetworking, UCS, SAN

Vblock, FlexPod, N1K, VSAN, Vpath, VxI..

CIAC, N1K, DCNM, UCSM

Continuous growth in: •Virtualization •VM-awareness •Cloud-awareness •Consolidation •High Availability •Speed

Virtualization

less silos

skills in

transition


Challenges….

• Scope of the learning

• Walking outside of the own

comfort zone

• Transition, expanding role

• Staying on top of the technology

evolution

• Getting the best out of the

product portfolio and of the

Cisco rich offering

• Bringing innovation and

disruption …without destruction

…and opportunities

• Learning from the leaders

• Getting the needed support

structure for a customizable,

rich, comprehensive training

and certification - walking the

IT workforce from today’s

siloed and rigid structure to a

dynamic, evolving up-to-date

team

• Surfing the technology

evolution unleashing unlimited

opportunities

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Cisco Unified Data Center

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIED FABRIC

UNIFIED COMPUTING

“It is the unified approach that allows all of these advantages. Consequently, it only makes sense that the three pillars of Cisco Unified Data Center are:

Cisco Unified Computing Cisco Unified Fabric Cisco Unified Management”

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Unified Computing VM, Fabric Integration

From Server admin to Virtualization Architect

Unified Fabric Unified I/O, Virtualization

VM networking erases the border between Fabric and Computing

Unified Management Cloud awareness, automation, APIs

Connecting the business rules to the IT

From the single

product…the ‘box’ the

administrator

…to

architectures

…the

‘solutions’

the

infrastructure

architects

To full

integration…the

XaaS.. the

business architects


Cisco Data Center Learning Strategy: the Answer to the

Challenges, the Door Towards a World of Opportunities…

From legacy, product-centric specialist certifications (Storage, Computing, Fabric,

Application Services)…

…to industry job roles focused specialist certifications centered around the Cisco

Unified Data Center architecture…

…supported by libraries of collateral training to make the specialist certifications

comprehensive, meaningful and well rounded

…additional training tools complement the offering through additional modalities, self paced labs, partnership with Technology

Partners also in training….

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Addressing the needs,

requirements and

relationships….

Customers Open

Untouched Market

Channels Partners

Technology Partners

Learning Partners

…with a comprehensive

portfolio…

Foundational Certification

(evolving set of Specialist

Certifications)

Collateral training (agnostic, product, solution, special

skills)

Full set of supporting training material (Labs, e-

learnings…)

High end direct touch to Customers

…with the right approach

Alliances with technology partners

to create end-to-end training (

Fast Product Training updates

Differentiated modalities

Relevance to Customers and

Partners maintained through continuous

dialog

The Right Strategy for a Complex Problem

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Architectures Job-Role Based Training and Certifications

Products

Value-add

Bre

adth

Product Training

MDS

Nexus UCS

Career Certs

NA/NP/IE

UC/UF Special

ists

UM Specia

lists

Certifications

Cisco

EMC

Netapp

Citrix Microsoft

VmWare

End-to-end Training

Mobility

Compliance

Security

Cloud

Skill Training

• UCS labs

• Nexus labs

Self-Study Labs

Supporting Labs

DC Learning Strategy…

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Under Consideration

Under

Consideration


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CCNA Data Center Example

• Pete is a network administrator who wants to start

working in data center

• Knowldege

‒ Basic routing and switching

‒ PC and server administration

‒ Good customer services skills

• What he needs to do to get started

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Required

Exams

Recommended Training Courses

640-911

DCICN

Introducing Cisco Data Center

Networking

640-916

DCICT

Introducing Cisco Data Center

Technologies

Note: There are no prerequisites for CCNA Data Center


CCNP Data Center

• Professional Level Certification; valid for 3 years

• Validates skills in job role;

‒ Pre-sales Engineers

‒ Design Engineers

‒ Implementation Engineers

‒ Support Engineers

• Data Center Technology pillars

‒ Unified Computing

‒ Unified Fabric

• Prerequisites

‒ CCNA Data Center and 3-5 years experience

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CCNP Data Center

Training and Exams

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Required Exams Recommended Training

642-997 DCUFI Implementing Cisco Unified Fabric

642-999 DCUCI Implementing Cisco Unified Computing

Available Exams (pick a group of 2) Recommended Training

642-996 DCUFD Designing Cisco Unified Fabric

642-998 DCUCD Designing Cisco Unified Computing

or

642-980 DCUFT Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Fabric

642-035 DCUCT Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Computing


CCIE: a Look at “OUR” Data Center

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• The Data Center CCIEs are able to cover the Pre-sales/Design

(understanding), Implementation (act) Support (interface) role

• Will be familiar with anything that Cisco positions in Data Center space

(MDS, Nexus line, UCS) glued by virtualization layers, leveraging all the

capabilities of this product suite to virtualize the environment; focus on

architectures – aligned with Unified Data Center

• Not Product Focus


Partner Ecosystem, Direct Delivery

EMCISA or EMCCIS (foundation)

Systems

(Data Center Unified

Computing Implementation – Cisco DCUCI +

Virt 101 and VmWare offering)

Storage (EMC-

EMCDCA)

Backup and Recovery

(EMC-EMCDCA)

Data Center Network

(Data Center Unified Fabric

Implementation Cisco DCUFI)

Security

(Implementing Enterprise

Data Center Infrastructure Security Cisco

IECIS-1)

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Enablement

Internal Audience

Partners

Customers

Evolution from Box to

Software Products

Shift in student

expectation

More flexibility and

speed of development

of the training

From assessment of

knowledge to creation

of knowledge

Start from Solution

Training and New

Skills training to guide

the Customer through

the Cloud revolution

Evolution: Key Influential Factors

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…Towards the cloud

• Foundational training on the cloud

• Collaboration with Universities to develop curriculum

• Solution training (VxI, Vblock, FlexPod, CIAC, Public Cloud, APIs…)

• Whole Offer insertion

Filling the skill gaps

• Product training

• Skill training (Service Designer, Integration Expert..)

• Open Stack

• Impact on current certification

• Skills Training (security…)

• Certification

Building the track

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How to Find the Resources on CLN

Study Groups

Documents

Discussions

Blogs and

Polls

Exam

Information

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Contacts

• Cisco Learning Network community help

‒ https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/help

• Antonella Corno

‒ [email protected]

• Andy Gremett

‒ [email protected]

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https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/help

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Questions….?


Call to Action

• Visit the Cisco Campus at the World of Solutions to experience Cisco innovations in action

• Get hands-on experience attending one of the Walk-in Labs

• Schedule face to face meeting with one of Cisco’s engineers

at the Meet the Engineer center

• Discuss your project’s challenges at the Technical Solutions Clinics

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